In Kindergarten, one of the teachers at my school died in a car accident. This happened around the same time as the Challenger Disaster, and it wasn't until my teens that I realized the teacher that died in the shuttle was not from my school.
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- I believed that the astronauts from the Challenger disaster managed to survive by diving into the sea.— Claire
- i used to believe that if i wasn,t at school the teachers would expell me from that school!!— sciver
- I used to believe that the school rabbit liked the red berries that grew in the hedge. But then he died.— Charlotte
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon